Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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jockey

UK /ˈd͡ʒɒki/ · US /ˈd͡ʒɑki/ noun, verb

Forms jockeys jockeying jockeyed

  1. noun One who rides racehorses competitively.
  2. noun That part of a variable resistor or potentiometer that rides over the resistance wire
  3. noun (in combination) An operator of some machinery or apparatus.
  4. noun (dated) A dealer in horses; a horse trader.
  5. noun (dated) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade.
  6. noun (UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
  7. noun (Ireland, crime, slang) A rapist.
  8. verb To ride (a horse) in a race.
  9. verb To jostle by riding against. “They were jockeying for position toward the end of the race.”
  10. verb To maneuver (something) by skill; especially, to do so for one's advantage. “They're all jockeying for promotion.”
  11. verb To cheat or trick. “I've been jockeyed into doing work for which I get no credit.”

Synonyms

prostitute's client cheat chouse shaft screw chicane

Etymology

The word is by origin a diminutive of jock, the Northern English or Scots colloquial equivalent of the first name John, which is also used generically for "boy" or "fellow" (compare Jack, Dick), at least since 1529. A familiar instance of the use of the word as a name is in "Jockey of Norfolk" in Shakespeare's Richard III. v. 3, 304. Equivalent to jock + -ey.
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit" or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A professional rider of horses in races. Addison.
  2. noun A dealer in horses; a horse trader. Macaulay.
  3. verb " To jostle by riding against one." Johnson.
  4. verb To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.

Etymology [Dim. of Jack, Scot. Jock; orig., a boy who rides horses. See 2d Jack.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “jockey”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “jockey” (best matches first).